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For more information, please contact [email protected]. montana KUFM ’s future up in air under Reagan’s cuts By JIM MARKS According to Conrad, the 25- Montana Kaimin Raportar percent cut is included in a plan to cut public broadcasting funds by kaimin National Public Radio’s con- 38 percent over the next three Friday, Feb. 27,1981 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 83, No. 65 gressionally approved budget may years. The current $180 million be cut 25 percent under President fund could drop to $100 million by Reagan’s proposed budget 1984. recommendations, Terry Conrad, “This is not a cut for the program and music director of economy’s sake,” he said. "It’s a KUFM, said yesterday. cut for political purposes.” Many bills roll through treadmill Conrad said Congress approves public broadcasting budgets two Conrad said major parts of years in advance. This approval, he public broadcasting, the arts and before Legislature’s break said, "is designed to provide an humanities, seem to be singled out insulation for public broad­ for reductions. He said this is By BOOMER SLOTHOWER — not including a number of ate got out about noon and the casting.” shown by the proposed 50-percent Montana Kaimin Legislative Reporter appropriations bills — on which House finished about 3:45 p.m. “NPR’s argument against the cuts from the National Endowment the legislators must act before they Here is a list of some of the bills budget cut is to let the cuts start for the Arts and the National and adjourn in mid-April. that either died or survived the with the new budget, not with the Endowment for the Humanities. CATHY KRADOLFER The last few days before the Montana Kaimin Legislative Reporter legislative treadmill. present one,” he said. “Public broadcasting, as a vehi­ transmittal deadline, -with both In the House: Public broadcasting proponents cle for the arts and the humanities, houses working 15-to-20-hour • conference committee are taking this argument to Con­ It's half-time at the Montana is getting more than its measure of days and voting on up to 40 bills a Legislature. All the bills, except amendments to the bill containing gress, Conrad said. “It’s a matter of cuts,” Conrad said. day, are times of long debate, short revenue bills, that survived the first supplemental funds for state agen­ defending the insulation for the tempers and quick passage or If Congress approves the part of the legislative process in cies, including the university radio network.” death of a large number of bills. Reagan cuts, Conrad said, it could one house have been sent to the system, were approved and sent to He said letters encouraging the During the inevitable pre­ cause a “total revision” of KUFM other house to face the second the Senate. support of public broadcasting are transmittal rush, at least one programming, although he said he part. The legislators, for the most • a bill that would allow faculty being sent to members of the senator or representative could be did not know at this-time what part, have gone home »to rest, members and other salaried House Appropriations Committee counted on to implore his exactly would result. He said NPR recuperate and get ready for the employees of the university and public broadcasting con­ colleagues to “finish up debate on is an essential part of KUFM next two months. system to be paid on the first of the stituencies. this bill so we can all get home programming, and a reduction in When they return to work Mon­ month passed second and third “Too many people are affected before midnight.” Most often, the its services could hurt. day, the 150 senators and reading. by public broadcasting. I think debate continued anyway. representatives will have 287 fewer • a bill that would provide Congress will be surprised at the "We need as many people as we Both houses adjourned relative­ bills to put through the process of $600,000 to the state work-study reaction of NPR supporters,” Con­ can getting their views to Con­ ly early on Wednesday. The Sen­ committee hearings, committee Cont. on p. 8 rad said. gress," he said. vote and full house approval. Those bills were killed by an adverse vote somewhere along the Depressing statistics face Vietnam vets way in the legislative process. But there are still 1,000-plus bills By C. L. GILBERT said that he was recently asked if he would fight in Vietnam again. "There Montana Kaimin Raportar is no way,” Carpentier said. "Not after the way I’ve been treated since I got back. For me and for other vets, there has been something missing. I Air quality: good There are more than 250,000 Vietnam veterans on bail, parole or keep looking fora place to start, a place where somebody gives a damn.” particulate level: 46 probation. There are more than 70,000 in jail. The suicide rate among Carpentier is a social worker now. He said he gets comments from his Vietnam veterans is 33 percent higher than the national average. Of all fellow workers that he has a “way of dealing with criminals and alcoholics the veterans who were married before they went to Vietnam, 38 percent and bums. That’s because I know where they're at,” he said. “I'm there, were divorced within six months of returning to the United States. The too.” same day the American hostages in Iran returned home to a heroes' Rick Payne was in the Green Berets in Vietnam. He said he did not have welcome, 50 Vietnam veterans committed suicide. any problems stemming from his war experiences until nearly four years These figures were among many presented last night at a forum titled after he returned. In 1972, in a blackout, he beat his wife and put her in the “A Warrior’s Homecoming" as part of a week of events dealing with hospital. She divorced him shortly afterwards. In 1973 he “beat a man half problems of the Vietnam veteran. to death” and did not remember the incident. He married again and Michael Marks, a Missoula psychologist who has dealt with delayed during another blackout, beat his new wife. He is going through divorce stress syndrome, a problem he called “a normal reaction to an abnormal proceedings again. situation," said Vietnam veterans are dealing with problems caused by Payne has served time in jail and has undergone intensive psychiatric stress from experiences in Vietnam "and, I repeat and, experiences when evaluations in relation to those incidents. He is the secretary of the they got home." Vietnam Veterans of Montana and is trying to help other veterans with “The war is not over. The war goes on," Marks said. But he did say that similar problems. "Through helping other vets. I’m trying to help myself. I veterans are trying to deal with their problems. “In the shrink world that I don’t want to wake up and have to ask my wife ‘Where’d you get those work in, if you admit you have a problem, then you’ve got it half beat." bruises?’ ’’ * Marks said that veterans are admitting thaf they do have problems. Darla Rucker is the ex-wife of a Green Beret. Soon after she was Often with voices shaking with emotion, the panelists of the forum, married, she said “I found I didn’t dare touch him at night.” "Twice she most of whom were Vietnam veterans, described their experiences was choked nearly to death by her husband. Every time a door slammed, during the war and afterwards. Bill Carpentier, who received many medals for valor while in Vietnam, Cont. on p. 8 o p in io n ------------------------------------------------------------ Pring, Penthouse and the First Amendment The First Amendment was who had a rather unique skill — fingernails. probably won’t be sympathetic, es­ bludgeoned last week in W yom ing. levitating men by performing oralsex Not exactly concrete evidence. pecially if they’re ignorant enough to The decision to award Kimerli Jayne with them. Pring contends that the This damage to the First Amendment be inflamed by television-style court­ Pring, Miss W yom ing of 1978, $26.5 story caused her severe emotional can be attributed to the fact that room theatrics. million in damages for being “libeled” distress, because she received attorney Spence is a highly successful The case probably should not have in a Penthouse magazine article was obscene telephone calls after the trial court lawyer, who gained national been decided by a jury. Th e real test proclaimed a "victory for freedom of article appeared in August of 1979. acclaim in 1979 for helping win the will come when the judge acts on the the press" by Pring's attorney, Gerry How many calls will Pring receive $10.5 million Karen Silkwood suit motion to overturn the verdict, a Spence.